She explains it herself. I bet it's that. >>> Third: with my name, maybe my novel was taken for “Women’s Fiction”—a dislikable name for a respectable genre—but

She explains it herself. I bet it's that. >>> Third: with my name, maybe my novel was taken for “Women’s Fiction”—a dislikable name for a respectable genre—but not what I was writing. If an agent was expecting that, I’m not surprised he or she would turn away after the first page or two. A George wasn’t expected to be writing Women’s Fiction, so he was taken on his own terms. <<<